He has repeatedly pledged not to work with the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party despite their second-place finish.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday's ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with ...

Analysts say Friedrich Merz will have one shot at fending off ascending populists and an increasingly hostile U.S.

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe is prepared to respond "within an hour" if the United States levies tariffs against the European Union, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a pre-election debate with his ...

BERLIN — The question is not who will be Germany’s next chancellor, but rather which of his rivals he’ll govern with. So while we’re fairly sure Friedrich Merz’s conservatives will be in charge — the ...